may make martyrs, but never proselytes. The human mind revolts from force, and the more strenuous the efforts to compel it to take an ungrateful course, the more certain will be its progress in the opposite direction.”
(Dates, Charters, and Customs of the Middle Ages, book 2, Volume 1, p. 241, R.T. Hampson, Henry Kent Causton and Company, London, United Kingdom, 1841).
Proclaim liberty throughout all the land
unto all the inhabitants thereof.
Leviticus 25:10